This paper presents an assessment of the steps involved in trajectory synthesis (for example, trajectory layout, trajectory generation, trajectory spacing, trajectory postprocessing, and trajectory verification) for shape-creating manufacturing operations such as rapid prototyping, milling, and electrical discharge machining. The rationale for this paper is that trajectory plays an important ro...

The teaching of digital design requires a design platform which presents a coherent design methodology to the students. Yet we found ourselves with diflerent tools and hardware subsystems, each having its own idea about what digital design was about. Here we record our eflort t o forge a single design platform for beginning designers from three separate software subsystems and two hardware subs...

This paper presents a cross-platform C++ programming environment designed for rapid prototyping of music synthesis and audio processing programs. The Synthesis ToolKit offers an array of unit generators for filtering, input/output, etc., as well as examples of new and classic synthesis and effects algorithms for research, teaching, performance, and composition purposes.

A known problem in the area of hardware/software codesign is the selection of the proper interface between the different parts of the design. This paper presents a technique which eases the selection by combining different synthesis techniques together with rapid prototyping. Application field of the technique is the design of communication systems where C and VHDL are generated from a specific...

In concatenative speech synthesis systems, speech models are usually used to represent the speech signal. Recently, the Harmonic plus Noise Model, HNM, has been proposed for concatenative speech synthesis with promising results. One main drawback of HNM is its complexity. In this paper, we review four different methods of reducing the complexity of HNM. These include, straight-forward synthesis...

The teaching of digital design requires a design platform which presents a coherent design methodology to the students. Yet we found ourselves with di erent tools and hardware subsystems, each having its own idea about what digital design was about. Here we record our e ort to forge a single design platform for beginning designers from three separate software subsystems and two hardware subsyst...

as simple implementation and is suited for use in broadcast networks due to the exploitation of the capture phenomenon. During the design process we utilized a novel methodology involving multirate dynamic data ow system level simulation, exploitation of a generic VHDL based implementation library, automatic VHDL generation based on the data ow description and logic synthesis. The advantages an...

Rapid and highly efficient synthesis of 2- or 2,5-substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazoles by the condensation of aryl carboxylic acid hydrazides and orthoesters can be achieved under microwave irradiation using an unmodified commercial over in unsealed vessels.

rapid and highly efficient synthesis of 2- or 2,5-substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazoles by the condensation of aryl carboxylic acid hydrazides and orthoesters can be achieved under microwave irradiation using an unmodified commercial over in unsealed vessels.